Sadtu rejects the appointment of the National Education and Training Council chair [SOUND]

# Teacher union Sadtu says it rejects the appointment of Penelope Vinjevold as the National Education and Training Council chairperson. The council will serve as a key advisory body on school education policy matters. Sadtu’s spokesperson, Nomusa Cembi, says Vinjevold’s appointment signals an alarming reaffirmation of the supremacist interests that have historically privileged colonial and Western-centric educational models, at the expense of authentic transformation: